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• Friday, December 8, 2006 05:31 AM

  Blaming Clinton

  I'm certain that once troop and equipment readiness reaches the bottom and everyone finally takes notice, the chickenhawks will blame Clinton's downsizing in the 90's as why we lost this war. They would do well to remember that Rumsfeld has fought congress on proposed increases in total troop levels every time they were brought to the table...ergo, Rumsfeld and Bush must agree with Clinton's reduction in force. One problem though, when Clinton was in office, we weren't up to our necks in deployments. One more mistake to add to the long list. It would also be good to review total expenditures on BS projects like the F-22 or Littoral and compare their cost to what is givin to the men in women actually on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Washington places far more value on these pet projects than those of us in uniform. If we're really committed to winning this war on terror, why are we spending most of our $$$ on preparing to go to war against China?

  Oh, and as long as I'm typing, will those idiots that keep saying that we had to go into Iraq to save the people from the brutal torture and murder of Saddam's regime shut the hell up! What about Darfur? Why don't we go into there where killing and suffering exists on a much larger scale? Or begin to work the issue of Ethiopia and Somalia's emerging war? I'll tell you why, because those places are not strategically important to the US policy makers....and since they're not strategically important, they don't matter, they don't exist in the eyes of the administration....no matter how much death and misery there is.

  —Grim Read Grim's other letters
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